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Art and aesthetics FROM 1960 / XII EDITION · 1968, RESONANCIAS AND PROSPECTS – WORKSHOPS

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By Sevilla AndaluNet on 05/08/2018

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A year where we learned many things: from Viet Cong strength, with the Tet Offensive. He surprised US forces, the blind Soviet authoritarianism did not hesitate to violently end the Prague Spring. We also learned to doubt justice: never clarified murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, nor punished the slaughter of the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Mexico.

Also it begins a critical reflection on the welfare state that had ruled Europe for almost 25 years old. disciplinary relations are questioned at work, productivist economy, the excesses of consumption and taboo, maintained even politically, about sex, relegating him to a mode of production more, regardless of the strength of desire and passion. The state, also, He had strengthened his power, to make education, health and culture apparatus of social control and domination. Graffiti in Paris suggests:

"Thanks to the tests and teachers careerism begins at six years".

Art in tune with the compass or perhaps had been doing for some time, with initiatives such as Fluxus and Spain, NOISE. In any case, artists like Hans Haacke, Robert Morris and Nancy Spero are mobilized against the Vietnam War, the Venice Biennale has to change its format, Marcel Broodthaers began his critique of the museum structures, photography loads of critical reflection on society (ever, Lonidier) and gains new strength feminist art (Valie Export, Yoko Ono, Barbara Kruger, Martha Rosler).

Recently Toni Negri and Michael Hardt have suggested that globalized capitalism system has incorporated many of the demands of the French May (and protests the following year in Berlin, Tokyo or California) that left barely able to translate politically. It's another reason to reflect on 1968.